it could actualy be phrased the other way.... "the lack of a meter caused the french revolution" ok, no, but it most definetly contributed to the revolution, as

it could actualy be phrased the other way.... "the lack of a meter caused the french revolution" ok, no, but it most definetly contributed to the revolution, as France was a maze of competing local measurement "standards" that caused a lot of problems and expense in business and trade, some of it wildly subjective, like an acre of land was not an area measurement, but was based on how much grain a given piece of land could grow.......and at one point before the revolution, there had begun a highly contentious attempt to straiten the whole mess out